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Something for Thursday
Because the movie has been on my brain since we saw it on Sunday, here is a suite of Max Steiner’s amazing music from Casablanca. The score’s greatness is all the more amazing when you consider yet another bits of this … Continue reading
From the Books, for International Women’s Day
This is a repost from a couple of years ago. I chose to repost this, about a book by astronomer Sara Seager, because it has lodged in my brain since I read it. I generally try to avoid reading grief … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
An offering for Roger! Here is “Adagio and Allegro for Piano and Horn”, by Robert Schumann. What’s the relevance to Roger? Look at the opus number. Happy birthday to one of the finer folks I’ve met online! (BTW, I actually … Continue reading
A night amongst the blossoms
The other night we attended a night-time orchid show at the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens. Somehow we managed to live here for quite a few years before we finally visited the Gardens, and even so we’ve not gone … Continue reading
Posted in On Buffalo and The 716, Photographic Documentation
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Sunday at the Movies
Here’s a trailer for the nifty film we just went to see: And if you want to know what I thought about said movie, well, those thoughts are over on my newsletter!
Viewing Diary: February
Here are some random notes and thoughts on things we watched in February: Teevee: If you’re not watching Abbott Elementary, I really don’t know what you’re doing with your life. I was getting kind of tired of the whole “workplace documentary” … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
Stupid busy days at work! I mean, they do make the days go by faster. But they also make me almost forget to post! Today would have been the 73rd birthday of Karen Carpenter. I first heard this song not … Continue reading
Speaking of STAR TREK…
…check this out. If you remember the episode “Metamorphosis”, this looks a lot like the Companion! What is it, actually? NASA explains: Using data from NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), international researchers have uncovered new information about the Tycho … Continue reading
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“That hurts worse than the uniform!”
A friend sent me this meme today: And I, of course, took this as an opportunity to exercise my overflow of geekosterone, telling him the story that some actors couldn’t make the Vulcan salute and would get their hands in … Continue reading
It can’t be “common” if nobody has it
I was reading Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s Substack the other day–I’ve been enjoying his writing a great deal–and I saw this quote: I have to say: I agree with this whole-heartedly. I’ve hated the phrase “common sense” for years, for the exact … Continue reading →